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Table 98. Public secondary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2001-02

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                       |Total, |  Total,  |                      Schools, by grade span            ||  Voca-   ||Average number of
                       |  all  |   all    |                                                        ||  tional  ||students per school\3\
                       |secon- | regular  |________________________________________________________||schools\2\||_______________________
 State or jurisdiction | dary  |secondary |Grades 7|Grades|Grades|Grades |Grades|Other spans|Other ||          ||
                       |schools|schools\1\|to 8 and|  7   |  8   |   9   |  10  |  ending   |grade ||          ||    All    |  Regular
                       |       |          | 7 to 9 |to 12 |to 12 | to 12 |to 12 |   with    |spans ||          || secondary | secondary
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |  grade 12 |      ||          ||  schools  |schools\1\
_______________________|_______|__________|________|______|______|_______|______|___________|______||__________||___________ ___________
           1           |   2   |    3     |   4    |  5   |  6   |   7   |  8   |     9     |  10  ||    11    ||    12     |    13
_______________________|_______|__________|________|______|______|_______|______|___________|______||__________||___________ ___________
   United States ......| 22,180|    18,382|   3,285| 3,302|   615| 13,391|   679|        217|   691||     1,023||        718|        807
                       |_______|__________|________|______|______|_______|______|___________|______||__________||___________ ___________
Alabama ...............|    401|       302|      27|    99|    10|    220|    31|          6|     8||        76||        661|        684
Alaska ................|     92|        71|      19|    23|     1|     47|     1|          1|     0||         2||        490|        601
Arizona ...............|    459|       418|      84|    49|     6|    307|     6|          2|     5||        18||        691|        726
Arkansas ..............|    420|       399|      49|   198|     4|     96|    44|          2|    27||        19||        432|        434
California ............|  2,058|     1,272|     334|   237|    33|  1,418|    13|          7|    16||         0||        959|      1,472
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Colorado ..............|    385|       317|      51|    64|    12|    248|     3|          2|     5||         7||        631|        719
Connecticut ...........|    217|       174|      29|    14|     3|    166|     3|          1|     1||        17||        853|        947
Delaware ..............|     43|        36|      12|     1|     2|     28|     0|          0|     0||         5||      1,004|      1,015
District of Columbia ..|     47|        44|      11|     2|     0|     30|     0|          0|     4||         0||        458|        471
Florida ...............|    451|       416|      16|    42|    20|    357|     3|          4|     9||        36||      1,515|      1,598
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Georgia ...............|    339|       322|      12|     4|     6|    309|     3|          1|     4||         0||      1,155|      1,205
Hawaii ................|     57|        56|      13|     9|     0|     33|     0|          0|     2||         0||      1,119|      1,136
Idaho .................|    232|       163|      46|    54|     5|    103|    19|          0|     5||        10||        441|        561
Illinois ..............|    983|       787|     164|    68|    26|    612|    13|         37|    63||        26||        669|        786
Indiana................|    456|       396|      72|    94|     4|    253|     3|          1|    29||        29||        779|        813
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Iowa ..................|    428|       395|      61|    89|     1|    265|     8|          2|     2||         0||        415|        439
Kansas ................|    424|       424|      67|    85|     2|    263|     7|          0|     0||         0||        409|        409
Kentucky ..............|    346|       262|      34|    70|     5|    233|     3|          0|     1||        10||        607|        745
Louisiana .............|    329|       291|      60|    45|   162|     52|     1|          1|     8||         8||        696|        738
Maine .................|    163|       136|      23|    12|     1|    125|     1|          0|     1||        27||        524|        524
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Maryland ..............|    256|       186|      21|     5|    12|    185|    26|          2|     5||        26||      1,143|      1,325
Massachusetts .........|    330|       272|      34|    38|    13|    236|     3|          2|     4||        45||        855|        904
Michigan ..............|    851|       694|     100|    91|    25|    562|    18|          4|    51||        45||        684|        779
Minnesota .............|    753|       461|      66|   265|    31|    260|    63|         29|    39||        12||        444|        676
Mississippi ...........|    319|       224|      37|    70|    10|    172|    22|          1|     7||        86||        644|        644
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Missouri...............|    644|       565|      60|   193|     7|    332|    26|         14|    12||        61||        539|        547
Montana ...............|    362|       358|     185|     0|     0|    175|     1|          0|     1||         0||        176|        177
Nebraska ..............|    345|       345|      33|   202|     0|     99|    11|          0|     0||         0||        341|        341
Nevada ................|    126|        94|      18|    20|     4|     77|     1|          5|     1||         3||        869|      1,091
New Hampshire .........|     95|        95|      17|     0|     0|     76|     1|          0|     1||         0||        716|        716
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
New Jersey ............|    455|       394|      68|    36|     7|    318|     8|          3|    15||        51||        956|      1,029
New Mexico ............|    200|       164|      38|    41|     3|    108|     5|          0|     5||         0||        561|        653
New York ..............|    937|       832|      98|   158|    13|    595|    22|          0|    51||        25||        942|        989
North Carolina ........|    377|       355|      19|     9|     4|    330|     4|          2|     9||         7||        978|      1,018
North Dakota ..........|    204|       197|      14|   131|     3|     49|     4|          1|     2||         7||        238|        238
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Ohio ..................|    948|       866|     174|   133|    37|    578|    11|          2|    13||        72||        731|        732
Oklahoma ..............|    589|       589|     108|     1|     0|    393|    66|          3|    18||         0||        347|        347
Oregon ................|    284|       242|      36|    33|    14|    193|     5|          2|     1||         0||        668|        759
Pennsylvania ..........|    795|       707|     101|   159|    10|    399|    32|         10|    84||        82||        882|        891
Rhode Island ..........|     64|        48|       8|     2|     0|     49|     3|          0|     2||        11||        878|      1,001
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
South Carolina ........|    281|       228|      29|    20|     8|    200|    13|          7|     4||        40||        946|        950
South Dakota ..........|    276|       262|      91|     2|     0|    180|     2|          0|     1||         4||        168|        171
Tennessee .............|    344|       314|      32|    32|     4|    262|    10|          0|     4||        23||        820|        831
Texas .................|  1,780|     1,445|     333|   193|    18|  1,173|    11|         10|    42||        25||        749|        897
Utah ..................|    246|       203|      84|    31|     8|     50|    60|          1|    12||         0||        831|        987
                       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
Vermont ...............|     69|        54|       7|    23|     0|     38|     0|          0|     1||        14||        624|        635
Virginia ..............|    406|       335|      31|    10|    41|    260|     7|          2|    55||        48||      1,061|      1,122
Washington ............|    617|       446|     121|    62|    27|    312|    41|         20|    34||        11||        607|        796
West Virginia..........|    196|       145|      30|    23|     3|    105|    13|          6|    16||        34||        550|        619
Wisconsin .............|    589|       486|      75|    53|     5|    401|    21|         24|    10||         1||        524|        621
Wyoming ...............|    112|        95|      33|     7|     5|     59|     7|          0|     1||         0||        332|        371
                       |_______|__________|________|______|______|_______|______|___________|______||__________||___________ ___________
Bureau of Indian       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
  Affairs .............|     26|        26|       1|     8|     0|     17|     0|          0|     0||         0||        344|        344
Department of Defense  |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
  dependents schools:  |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
   Domestic schools ...|      7|         7|       2|     0|     1|      4|     0|          0|     0||         0||        545|        545
   Overseas schools ...|     38|        38|       2|    23|     1|     12|     0|          0|     0||         0||        472|        472
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  Outlying areas       |       |          |        |      |      |       |      |           |      ||          ||           |
American Samoa ........|      6|         5|       0|     0|     0|      6|     0|          0|     0||         1||        656|        720
Guam ..................|      4|         4|       0|     0|     0|      4|     0|          0|     0||         0||      2,215|      2,215
Northern Marianas .....|      4|         4|       1|     1|     0|      2|     0|          0|     0||         0||        979|        979
Puerto Rico ...........|    379|       358|     187|    28|     1|      7|   147|          1|     8||        14||        597|        603
Virgin Islands ........|     11|         8|       6|     0|     0|      4|     1|          0|     0||         1||        791|        973
_______________________|_______|__________|________|______|______|_______|______|___________|______||__________||___________ ___________

\1\Excludes vocational, special education, and alternative schools.
\2\Vocational schools are also included under appropriate grade span.
\3\Average for schools reporting enrollment data.

NOTE: Includes schools with no grade lower than 7. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as some special education schools for the disabled.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2001-02. (This table was prepared April 2003.)


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